Who has bought a car with more than 200,000 miles?

[NelsonR32]

What did you buy? What did it cost? How much longer did it last? Would you buy another.

I've heard of people actually doing over 200,000 miles in a car but never heard of anyone buying one with over that mileage?

[Finlandia]

Volvo 850 -93 400,000km or about 250,000miles. Still going strong nearly three years later, now at 425,000km.

Replaced cat, rear brake pads and lower steering joint.

[ODJ]

I recently bought this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

I also have a 202k BMW E34 525tds Touring.

Big miles and history is much better than low miles and no history

[Codswallop]

ODJ said:

I recently bought this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

That is stunning!

[Lordglenmorangie]

That really is something special !

[hornetrider]

Codswallop said:

ODJ said:

I recently bought this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

That is stunning!

Have you picked it up yet? How is it in the flesh?

[FreeLitres]

Lordglenmorangie said:

That really is something special !

+1

Those leather seats looks brand new!

[A14RGS]

NelsonR32 said:

What did you buy? What did it cost? How much longer did it last? Would you buy another.

I've heard of people actually doing over 200,000 miles in a car but never heard of anyone buying one with over that mileage?

My '96 Audi A4 2.6 (V6 petrol) is now showing 350000 miles. I bought it almost six years ago when it had a mere 236000 - it had been owned by father and son from new and had a fab service history.
I bought it as a stop-gap, but it just keeps on going! I've kept up the history using a very good local independant garage and the car still drives really well and is incredibly reliable. I did have to change the original exhaust last year, but it's still on the original clutch and the engine has never been apart. It's a good 'un, although absolutely worthless in financial terms!

Who says high mileage cars aren't a good buy?!



Update - happy days - Audi passed its MoT on 4th August at 350152 miles, fifth consecutive year with 'No Advisories'

[buggalugs]

I bought an E34 525TDS with 297K on it once - for the princely sum of £200. Sold it year later with around 320K on it for £300 It had a few oil changes but nothing else that I can remember. The 'box felt a bit crappy at first but new oil in there made it lovely again. By the end it needed a clutch and took a while to start in the cold or I'd have sold it for a bit more easily.

I loved that car - it was my little tank, driving it was such a worry-free experience. My breakdown cover consisted of the taxi fare to the nearest train station. And I always won if anyone played chicken with me

[badlands1]

I sold a 3 year old van with 165k miles on it and I got really good money for it and the buyer was not one bit bothered about the miles.

[Strachan]

badlands1 said:

I sold a 3 year old van with 165k miles on it and I got really good money for it and the buyer was not one bit bothered about the miles.

[tonywilliams]

4 years ago I bought a 1990 Merc 270E with around 240k on the clock for £200 which I had for about 3 months, in that time it was used to tow my other car twice. I sold it for £300. I didn't do much milage in the Merc but it was very reliable and still drove like a new car.

7 years ago I bought a 1991 Rover 827 Sterling with the 2.7 Honda engine for about £250 which had about 275k on the clock. Sadly it lasted about a week before dumping all of it's coolant due to a cracked metal inlet on what I think was a manifold, when I started it so a buyer could hear it run it dumped its oil from an oil cooler pipe swiftly followed by its power steering fluid. You had to be there to witness it, it was unbelievable.

2 years ago I bought a 1994 Discovery 2.5tdi with about 180k on the clock, it got me to Alicante before my friend overfilled the oil by about 4 litres and the engine ran itself into distruction in the biggest cloud of smoke you've ever seen. If it wasn't for my friend putting 5 litres of oil in when it needed no more then a litre it would have probably still been running around the south of Spain.

[Jasandjules]

Don't think I've ever bought a car with more than 70k on the clock.......

[freecar]

I bought a 500 SEC with 246K on the clock with full MBSH for 180K or so and the rest full of specialists! 246K of service history!

[Sim89]

I bought a 1991 BMW E30 316 touring with 220k miles on it last year for 400 as a winter run about. Had no problems with it and sold it for the same amount 5 months later.

[jon-]

I recently bought a 1985 635csi with '78,000' miles on the clock, so I too have bought a car with more than 200,000 miles

[Triumph Man]

I bought a Volkswagen Passat TDI with 215,000 on the clock. It did not end happily... Still, I know now that I bought a pup. I've heard many tales of Passats/A4s of that age with interstellar mileage with no issues. Before multiple problems reared their ugly head it did provide good service. Slightly knackered glow plugs made for long periods of cranking in the -10 temperatures we had at the beginning of the year, but it always started. Worn dampers made for comical handling and ride. But you know what? I loved it for its sheer resilience and the fact that it wanted to keep going.

As my old car was bought by a Lithuanian to be exported back to Lithuania, I expect that somewhere it is still going, with copious amounts of RadWeld + or whatever it's called in the cooling system to keep the hole in the headgasket closed up. Either that or it spends its days being towed by an ox with a family of gypsies inside.

I would probably buy another car with north of 200,000 on the clock, although I would be a little more circumspect. I hope that my current car reaches 200,000 without too many dramas.

[Jw Vw]

buggalugs said:

I bought an E34 525TDS with 297K on it once - for the princely sum of £200. Sold it year later with around 320K on it for £300 It had a few oil changes but nothing else that I can remember. The 'box felt a bit crappy at first but new oil in there made it lovely again. By the end it needed a clutch and took a while to start in the cold or I'd have sold it for a bit more easily.

I loved that car - it was my little tank, driving it was such a worry-free experience. My breakdown cover consisted of the taxi fare to the nearest train station. And I always won if anyone played chicken with me

Fantastic - love the old E34's. Such well built cars.

[iva cosworth]

I bought a 1989 SAAB 900i with 230,000 miles on it 5 years ago as a snotter for £400

It developed a running problem after a couple of months and i sold it to a bloke who

only wanted to cut off one of the rear quarter panels for another car .

It could have gone on a lot longer IMO.

[Leptons]

I bought an E36 325 tds with 297k miles on the clock. It was fine apart from the heater blower motor, comical gearchange and wiper linkage so slack the wipers banged the top edge of the bonnet!
Sold it at 303k miles at a profit!